| The men were interned after barely escaping a full-dress skirmish with the local gendarmes. |
| There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties. |
| A moment more and a captain of gendarmes appears and shouts something in excited, gesticulative French. |
| There were three gendarmes in plain clothes, a little pumped up with the adrenaline of the occasion. |
| Got pally with six French gendarmes and hope to see them again when I have another spell off. |
| On the other side, the land army, army intelligence units, and the corps of gendarmes oppose such reforms, which they find excessively constraining. |
